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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Readers Split on Bringing Back Ice Skating Rink

In a Patch poll, 19 of 23 voters supported seeing the ice rink return.

St. Charles Patch readers were split on whether the city should consider bringing back an ice skating rink for the 2013-14 winter season.  Parks Board member TJ Slattery suggested the city consider the issue as he has had several phone calls from people wondering what happened to it. The city operated an ice skating rink in Frontier Park in 2009 and 2010, but opted not to bring it back in 2011 because of cost concerns. Patch readers raised concerns about the amount of money the city would spend on bringing back the rink.  "Saint Charles needs to save money. Why don't they spend less and stop taxing utility bills? STOP WASTING MONEY!!!!," said one reader, dbatch1715. Catherine Moody Dreher said, "It doesn't generate revenue and those …

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Should St. Charles Bring Back An Ice Skating Rink?, Future of Skating Rink on Thin Ice, dbatch1715, and 1 more ›

wade davey

2:12 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013

maybe the casino ca donate it to the city God know we gave them plrnty of tax insentives to do business here anyways.   more ›

Friday, January 4, 2013

Should St. Charles Bring Back An Ice Skating Rink?

The city offered an ice skating rink in Frontier Park for two years and one Parks Board member wants to see it return.

For two years, visitors to downtown St. Charles could take a spin on an ice skating rink in Frontier Park run by the city during the winter months.  The city shut down the rink after the 2010 season due to cost concerns, but some members of the community are hoping to see it return.  TJ Slattery, a member of the St. Charles Parks and Recreation Board, is campaigning for a joint effort between the Tourism Department, City Council and the Parks and Recreation Department to bring back the ice rink for the 2013-14 winter season.  "I have had a lot of calls this year saying, 'Hey, where is the ice skating rink?'" he said. "I think it's a good amenity. You don't want to overdo it, at the end of the day you want to offer things that are cool like…

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Future of Skating Rink on Thin Ice and Frontier Park

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Dino McDonnell

12:46 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013

June, the ice rink lost money, a lot, according to the city.   more ›

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